About this event
Clients who come to therapy with concerns regarding sex, intimacy, and relationships often benefit from body-based learning. Surrogate Partner Therapy utilizes a triadic model: client, talk therapist, and surrogate partner form a team, collaborating closely to reach the client’s goals. The surrogate forms a relationship with the client, and leads them through a series of exercises that gradually cultivate emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy. The client processes their experience of this relationship with their talk therapist. Therapist and surrogate collaborate to tailor each session to the client’s needs, pacing, and progress. Once the client has reached their goals, the team facilitates closure of the surrogate-client partnership, allowing the client to practice all the stages of a relationship lifecycle: beginning (getting to know each other and building trust), middle (increasing intimacy), and end (amicable breakup).
Attendees are eligible to receive 2 CEs upon completion of the post-session survey.
